Clothespin



` Patented May 26, 1925.

FICE.

REDMOND E. BUSIBY, F ALLEN/OKLAHOMA.

CLOTHESPIN.

application :nea November T o all w/om it may concern.'

Be it known that I, REnMoNn E. BUsY, a citizen of United States, residing at Allen, in the county of Pontotoc and State of Oklahoma,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in (llothespins, of which the following is a vfull, clear, and exact dcscription.

This invention relates to clothes pins and especially to that type which is formed by pivotally connecting two metal jaws which are normally pressed to closed position by means of a coil spring mounted on the pivot.

One of the objects of the invention consists in generally improving this type ofclothes pin by designing an article which will withstand the wear and tear to which clothes pins are ordinarily subjected, thereby greatly increasing the life of the pin.

A further object of the invention resides in the construction of a sheet metal clothes pin which is adequately reinforced vat all points and yet which may nevertheless be `easily and quicklystamped by machinery. Other objects and advantages of the invention will be apparent from the following description when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings in which,

i Figure 1 is a perspective view of the 3 0 clothes pin. i

Figure 2 is a l through, and

Figure 3 is a plan view thereof. f

Referring to the drawings more particularly, the numeral l refers generally t0 the clothes pin which is composed of two sheet metal jaws 2 which areiidentical in construction. `Each of the jaws 2 isstainped up from sheet metal, and comprises an elongated rectangular body portion 3 and integral co-extensive side flanges 4 which together present the formation of a channel.

It is desirable to pivot these Itwo jawstoame time to have gether, and yet at the s them as nearly parallel as possible, and to this end the jaws or channel members 2 are placed back to back' with their flanges 4 cxtending outwardly. In order to pivot these members, ears 5 are struck from the flanges at a point approximately half-way of ongitudinal section therelings, it will b 1, 1924. semi No. 747,296.

their length, and are bent to a position substantially in the plane of these flanges. It

should the int of such width e rigidity of the jaws 2,

the flanges l are :made

at their intermediate 'portion as to permit the ears 5 -to be struck therethrough and yet lea ing portion 6 so th tend continuously jaws.

The ears 5 placed 1n an pivot pin 7 is ins the jaws are thus pivotal] coil spring 8 mounted on the tends to throw ation of cl Vhile the apertured amp ver a bridge or connect` at the flanges 4 may exfrom end to end of the of t-he respective jaws are overlapping position and a erted therethrough so that y connected. A silient means is pivot pin 7 and normally the jaws 2 to closed position. ds of the jaws are provided ssisting in the opering the article to be secured.

or other re opposite ends of the jaws are as indicated by the numeral 10 to aid in gripping this end of the clothes pin.

From the foregoing description taken in connection wit a sheet metal c extremely durable by forced at all thosel p be applied and cheaply manu stamping processes common in tegral flanges length of the from said flan the ears of the two normally throwing the j 2; A clothes channel-shaped ears struck froi h the accompanying drawapparent that I have devised lothes pin which is rendered the fact that it is reinoints where strain may yet which may be easily and factured by the ordinary sheet.y metal nes.

ydescribed my invention,

as new and desire to secure by pin, including a pair of metal w rectangular body po con'lprising/"a substantially rtion and a pair ofv inextending throughout the body portion, ears bent up ges a pivot pin connecting jaws and a spring for aws into closed posipin, comprising a pair of jaws arranged back to back` n the flanges of each jaw and lient towards the opposite jaw, a pivot pin as to retain the integrity of the. lnllor. snirl connect-ing the ears of the two jaws, and a ears being bent, toward the opposite jaw, :1 spring for normally throwing the jaws into pivot pin connecting the ears of the two 10 closed position. jaws, and a spring for normally throwing 3. A clothes pin, comprising :L pair of the jaws into closed position. channel-shaped jaws arranged bi1-ck to back, n Y ears Struck from the flanges of eacflnj'aw so Y `REDMOND E. BUSBY.y 

